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Ni No Kuni started life as a Nintendo DS game in Japan, and then it was sort of "re-imagined" for the Playstation 3. If I had known it was just an expensive port of a DS game, I wouldn't have touched it, as it has all the hallmarks of a typical handheld RPG. Tedious fetch quests, massive grinding and a rather tepid, almost glacially slow story starring a fairly dull (and poorly voiced) protagonist. The actual progression loop, is very, very old school. You go to town, talk to NPC, trip to Motorville, fetch quest, boss, rinse and repeat. It takes about 3 hours (if you move quick) to get your second party member. After that you spend way too much time in the desert which is in part due to many quests in that area. Your second party member is the only character that can "capture" familiars, who are like Pokemon, but mostly uninspired looking. For some reason however the percentage rate of acquiring many of these familiars after fights is terrifyingly- almost abysmally low. So much so that I think it was purposefully done to pad out the playtime. It felt like maybe 1% most of the time, but officially it's 4 to 20% depending on what familiar it is. Not only to do some of the merit stamp side quests require you to capture certain familiars, but some of them are rare to spawn into fights when you enter them. I spent probably hours trying to capture some of these guys. That's bad, but it gets worse. Not only is the familiar capture rate awful, but the item drop rate is also ridiculous even after you get a character who can steal regular and rare items (manually). You'd think he'd have better chances, right? Nope, his steal ability costs magic and you have to manually select it each time. He also misses a lot and it becomes a colossal waste of time standing around pressing the same button every time you want an important item drop from a specific enemy. Every aspect of these mechanics were clearly designed to exploit people who suffer from OCD or who are lacking in impulse control. The battle system is an awkward hybridization of real-time choices and turn-based phases. This is admittedly clunky, badly designed and creates a host of issues. Why it wasn't just turn-based is a total mystery to me, as the mechanics barely function as intended. Between the drawn out "taking heart and giving heart" moments for NPC's standing right next to one another, the cumbersome menus, the unexplained stat roll-over system whenever you "evolve" familiars, unexplained element types, the heavy-handed tutorials explaining banal concepts that don't even affect actual gameplay, poor translation, rambling dialogue, ugly familiar art designs, endlessly repeated animations everywhere, and drawn-out story segments where literally nothing is happening, I couldn't find anything actually enjoyable. You'll go back to Motorville to resolve problem A, then come back to solve problem A, and it's formulaic. All the while every combat encounter turns into trying to figure out why the AI is totally idiotic. There are so many bad and frustrating design decisions. Everything is stretched out, there is too much filler. The menu in combat is a wheel that takes more time to select options than any normal menu would have. Enemy abilities can cancel your turn. Then the game has the gall (hours in) to introduce a special ability that lets the entire party defend or attack at the same time. What on earth? Level 5 collaborated with Studio Ghibli, yet somehow there is nothing intrinsically interesting about Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch. Nothing, zilch, nada. It's hum-drum fantasy aesthetic with stupid puns makes it even more hard to believe it was critically acclaimed at release. It may be one of the most boring and nonsensical stories I've ever seen in a JRPG, even for children. I can't even remember the last time I felt actual anguish playing a game. You don't know how miserable an experience it was running around a desert for over an hour trying to catch a giant walking pile of bananas for just one stupid side-quest. It's the most flagrantly padded, limited, stifling, and dull JRPG I have played in my life. It lacks the spirit of adventure, it lacks a shocking amount of imagination, it solves everything for you, and it's hardly ever eventful or exciting or even interesting. Every NPC utters the same text no matter what happens in the world, the non-animated in-game cutscenes have generic gestures with head nods, and the game isn't even difficult until there is a massive spike out of nowhere. It just railroads you into using the same overpowered familiars (some only accessible from DLC content or a pre-order bonus) so you can just steamroll through the last 75% of the content. Sorry, but I'm not grinding Tokotoko's for hours with the veil spell. I abhorred my time with this artificially bloated, shallow and pointless snooze fest. It's just mindless crap, designed to waste your time. What an insulting title.

Good jrpg. Very fun. With ghibli style graphic. Magical in story end great ending.

Ni No Kuni is such a fantastic game! Great story, great characters, great gameplay, great graphics, great soundtrack, great art style (thx Ghibli!). I couldn‘t put it down back in the days on my PS3 and bought it for my Switch recently to play it once again. This time on the go. Port is fantastic! I love the world building! One of my favorite games of all time.

It's Steam version, but it does not matter. Major disappointment from Battle System, especially after 2nd character joining the party. It could be a real nice game, but AI attempting suicide made me quit after 10 hours of gameplay.

Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch has some eye-catching cutscenes and atmospheres that really help set the mood for a ghibli style of adventure, but ultimately becomes a rather average one in the end. The combat also provides for some neat mechanics that I wish the pokemon company would look into, but still feels rather limiting despite it's promises. Aside from some backtracking and padding issues, Ni No Kuni still proved plenty of fun moments and captivated my imagination, if only for a little more than usual.

Amazing story! Is full of emotional moments. But the game is way toooo looong. It became a chore to get to the end. The graphics are very beautiful and the music exceptional. This is definitely a master piece.

I'm giving it 3 just for some difficulty with the final boss. Apart from that, one of the worst hyped game of all time.

This is the perfect JRPG. It combines elements of Pokémon and an interactive story. The game is close to 80 hours. The tutorial is long, but the time spent is worth it. The graphics are great for the style and time. Cut scenes are well made and voiced beautifully. It isn't a good game to introduce to a new player. The target audience is clearly experienced RPG enjoyers with ouds to classic RPGs.

Es el Pokémon de PlayStation que siempre quisimos y nunca tuvimos. El mejor videojuego de Studio Ghibli hasta la fecha.

Ame este juego, es hermoso de todas las maneras posibles, aunque el sistema de juego no me gusto mucho realmente, el diseño de las peliculas de Ghibli es maravilloso.

Wenn es ein Spiel gibt, für das ich mir ein HD Remaster für die PS4 wünschen würde, dann wäre es sicherlich Ni No Kuni. Ich bin ein großer Fan der Ghibli Studios und ihrer Filme wie "Spirited Away", "Mononoke" oder "Das wandelnde Schloss". Dass Level 5, die Macher von PS2 Perlen wie Dark Chronicle und Dragon Quest 8, nun ein Spiel mit den Ghibli Studios zusammen entwickeln - das hat mich natürlich schwer begeistert. Und was soll man sagen, die Zusammenarbeit hat sich wirklich gelohnt. So hat Ghibli nicht nur handgezeichnete Anime Sequenzen zum Spiel beigesteuert, sondern auch Charakterdesign und Storytelling maßgebend geprägt. So wird man viele Charaktere finden, wie beispielsweise die Königin von Ding Dong Dell, die einfach so hardcore Ghibli sind, dass es eine wahre Freude ist. Zudem lebt die Erzählung sehr von dem Moment der Phantastik, das auch Ghibli Filme seit jeher insbesondere prägt. Phantastik meint, dass reale und fiktionale Welt miteinander verwoben sind. Es ist ein Spiel mit den Ebenen, wo Wirklichkeit und Fantasie sich die Hand geben, sich verflechten und gegenseitig beeinflussen. Ghibli versteht es meisterhaft solche Geschichten zu erzählen. So bietet auch Ni No Kuni eine erzählerische Kost, die man sonst eher in Michael Ende Romanen findet, nicht aber in typischen JRPGs. Ganz großes Kino. Doch auch Level 5 hat ihren Beitrag zu diesem großartigen Spiel beigetragen, indem sie nämlich hervorragende Spielmechaniken entwickelt haben, die sich absolut motivierend und herausfordernd spielen. So ist eine wesentliche Mechanik des Spiels das Fangen und Aufziehen von Monstern. Jeder der drei Hauptcharaktere kann nun wiederum bis zu drei dieser Monster in einer Kampfsituation aufrufen. Doch damit ist das Thema noch nicht durch, denn als Spieler hat man die Möglichkeit, jederzeit zwischen den Charakteren, wie auch den verschiedenen aufgerufenen Monstern zu wechseln. Denn auch die Monster sind in ihren Aktionen komplett vom Spieler steuerbar. Dass heißt praktisch, man kann 3x3 Monster plus die speziellen Fertigkeiten der Charaktere komplett selbstgelenkt ins Spiel bringen. Dass es zusätzlich per Knopfdruck aktivierbare Meta Kommandos gibt wie "Alle greifen an" und "Alle verteidigen", macht das System nochmals komplexer. Worauf es am Ende ankommt, ist alle Monster und Spezialfertigkeiten der Charakteren taktisch geschickt einzusetzen, was ein ständiges Hin- und Her zwischen Charakteren und Monstern erfordert, ein schnelles situatives Umschalten, je nach dem, was auf dem Schlachtfeld gerade passiert. Gerade bei Bosskämpfen werden zudem die Metakommandos wichtig. Wenn beispielsweise zu einem Spezialangriff angesetzt wird, sollte man seine komplette Truppe möglichst schnell auch in Abwehrhaltung versetzen. Leider haben viele Tester das Kampfsystem von Ni No Kuni etwas verkannt. Anders kann ich mir ein Reden von Unübersichtlichkeit und Unfairness nicht erklären. Zugegeben, auf dem Schlachtfeld tummeln sich oftmals bis zu zehn Figuren. Das kann schon mal ein wenig unübersichtlich werden. Aber klassischerweise achtet man bei einem JRPG Kampfsystem vor allem auf die eigenen Werte und die Aktionen der Gegner, weniger auf die Inszenierung des Ganzen. Unfair ist Ni No Kuni so sicherlich nicht. Das System ist recht komplex und bietet verschiedenste Möglichkeiten der Bedienung. Das kann am Anfang etwas überfordernd wirken. Das Spiel setzt schon voraus, dass man sich mit den Fähigkeiten seiner Charaktere und Monster auseinandersetzt und selbstständig Taktiken entwickelt, wie man diese gut und effektiv einsetzen kann. Es wird einem hier recht wenig vorgekaut, sondern man bekommt ein sehr offenen System an die Hand, dass man auch sehr einfach spielen kann, aber eben auch sehr agil und effektiv. Es liegt letztlich am Spieler, was er aus den angebotenen Möglichkeiten macht. Neben dem fantasievollen Charakterdesign, der wunderschönen Zeichentrickoptik, der tiefgreifenden, niveauvollen Erzählung und nicht zu vergessen - des großartigen orchestralen Soundtracks, bietet Ni No Kuni so auch ein ungeheuer flexibles Kampfsystem, das zum Experimentieren und Optimieren einlädt und so zum eigentlichen Highlight des Spiels avanciert. Als Komplettpaket ist Ni No Kuni daher meines Erachtens bis heute das Beste was man im JRPG Genre finden kann. Leider hat der Nachfolger, nach dem Ausstieg der Ghibli Studios aus dem Franchise, das künstlerische Niveau des Vorgängers nicht halten können. Auch das grandiose Kampfsystem wurde durch ein spaßiges, aber deutlich weniger taktisches Echtzeitkampfsystem ersetzt. Schade. Gerade deshalb hoffe ich inständig weiter auf ein HD Remaster des Originals für die PS4. Für mich ist Ni No Kuni das beste JRPG das man sich wünschen kann. Es wäre schade, wenn diesem Kleinod der Sprung in die nächste Generation verwehrt bleiben sollte.

This game has a wonderful design and presentation, so it's easy to WANT to overlook its flaws. However, the sad truth is that those flaws do add up to an unbearable weight and all but the most patient of players will likely make it to the end credits. The problem has to do with a shifting tone between a simplistic story and a quite high difficulty early on, as well as a prolongued "tutorial" opening that will make the first dozen or so hours a bit awful to climb. It might be wise to search out a beginner's guide that leaves out story spoilers, that could be a smart way to get the most out of this game.

If you like My Neighbour Totoro, Genshin Impact, Ni No Kuni (the studio Ghibi film), Harry Potter, then you will love this. It has wizards, witches, good, evil, strange creatures, (in a way it’s similar to Pokemon lol) and has a wide range of places. You can cast spells, tame creatures, battle enemies, and it’s just so fun. Definitely in my top 5 fav games

The world this game creates makes you feel like you might just be on the adventure of a lifetime, and then it tears that all apart every way it can! I warn you about this game, and am amaze and appalled at the high ratings it keeps getting. The only way this can get high ratings is from underdog-identifying jrpg obsessed fans that refuse to see flaws because they use a mindless grind to cope with reality. First of all, that beautiful, unique, aesthetic world is constantly ruined with puns. The spell to open doors is Open-says-a-me! HAHHAHAHAHAHA. WOW SO FUNNY! Imagine if Bloodborne or Skyrim ruined it's aesthetic like this. Wow this cave is called "Bandits think they aren't about to get killed Cave!" HAHAHAHAHA. The only reason this isn't brought up is because the large majority of jrpg fans are extremely trashy. Skip this Game Oh before I started writing this, when I was giving the game a final chance, the game crashed when I was saving, loosing loads of mindless-grindy progress. Just putting this here in case you were thinking this was too negative and wouldn't read all this. Skip this Game. You are from the normal Earth world and go to a fantasy style world. You meet a cute companion and bring her back to your world. How does she react???? SHE DOESN'T REACT AT ALL. Skip this Game. You have to collect milk from the milk fountains in town. You go to one only to find it isn't the one the game decided you should go to, the prompt just doesn't show up at all, you had to somehow predict that the developers wanted you to only collect milk from a certain fountain even though that isn't part of the story or quest at all. Skip this Game. How is the grind? If you have the Remastered or preordered the original, then you have Griffy and the grind is grindy. If not, then you have to constantly consume expensive health and mana potions all the time. Most of the Pokémon are completely weak and useless. [oh, and this is true on Easy difficulty] Skip this Game. Did a quest, it isn't completed because it's glitched. Skip this Game! You thought the art style was good? Wait until you see the most appallingly ugly talking tree design you have ever seen or imagined. Skip this Game! What a severe disappointment.

The game is BEAUTIFUL. The music is AMAZING and the plot is quite interesting. The game sounds like 10/10 until you enter some combat. This is where it all goes to the sewer. For some reason completely beyond me the developers decided to make this real time action battles. In consequence you have to frantically give commands, use items , control the movement of the characters and so on. Was that all turn based it would be a gem. Why have you done it dev ?!?! Everything in this game is perfect. Except for battles. They are absolutely horrible. And unfortunately 80 % of this game is battles.

Este comentário é universal nas minhas reviews. Apenas quero dar nota aos jogos e caso queiram saber mais alguma coisa sobre o jogo, aconselho a ver outras reviews ou até mesmo a experimentar o jogo.

This game could have been great. The art style is cute, the music is great, and the characters are memorable. This entire game is ruined by the horrid combat system. ARPGs really need good mechanics to stick out, and this game does not have them. Your companions are controlled by one of the dumbest AIs in video game history, and do almost nothing to help you in battle. The normal encounters are really nothing special; just spam attack and win. The boss fights are when things go down the drain. Many boss fights you are forced to run in circles while your AI hopefully does something to help you. That is, of course, if they don't die early in the fight because they never defend or evade. Sometimes the games with the most potential are ruined by one or two glaring flaws, and this is one of those games. I'd really like to give it a better score, but I can't justify it purely because of the combat. You wouldn't give a meatball sub a very high score if the meatballs were replaced with horse turds, regardless of how good the sauce or the bread was. Ni No Kuni is a meatball sub with horse turds for meatballs.

Beautiful, great music and art, interesting story, but dull, repetitive and challenging combat mar it for me. Such a shame.

A JRPG straight out of a fairy tale book, Ni No Kuni impresses with its scope and characters. There are dull moments in between but they don't detract too much from this charming and whimsical adventure.

Weird battle system : you choose action and let the character play... well, turn by turn will be more appropriate. Not a game for me after 15h finaly.

This game is amazing with immersed game play. It is generally easy to get the hang of. Even the grinding feels good. I feel like this should be played by a lot of people. The best part is the battle system which is also easy to handle and play with. You can select every party member's action to either attack and defend. it is really engaging.

Ni No Kuni its a perfect game for me. This game has so much polishing, so much content, so much love involved. Its a masterpiece of our age. NNK does not make anything new, but instead it collects many elements of classic JRPGs and use them in the rightest way possible. At the same time, NNK use all the modern resources it could to make the best experience possible, without fall into the same old tropes of the genre. And, besides being a perfect blend of old and new, NNK excels well in his narrative, using the Studio Ghibli factor by his side. And to complement all of that, NNK have a fun and polished game play, in which we can be stuck by hours and hours. In fact, NNK is my most beloved game ever. And the only one i can easy give a 10 out of 10... It does everything i like in a RPG right, and i cant recommend it enough.

I know this game has been out for a long time, but I see it's being re-released, so I want to warn people about the frustrations that I've experienced that didn't seem to bother people with positive reviews. The ally AI. I'm not even talking Persona 3 AI, I'm talking may have as well given the controller to a 2 year-old bad AI. Your AI partners are so dumb, they cannot make a single reasonable in-battle decision. They cannot defend properly. They cannot chose spells properly. They cannot use their SP properly. They won't use items. What they will do, is stand in the way of enemy attacks, burn through all their SP pointlessly, use inefficient attacks and spells, and make sure to die at every single random battle, unless you are over-leveled. A lot of times, I just let my partners die so I could focus on winning battles with just one character, because that was just as efficient anyway. Obviously, the game is not without some merit: the graphics look good; the music is fun; the locations are cool. But if you want to "experience" this game, you may as well skip all the fighting and watch the cutscenes on Youtube.

Not many games like it. The combat system feels unique. Even tho it borrows monster collecting and training from series like Pokemon, the combat is real time and more action based. The art style, animations and soundtrack are also all amazing.

I absolutely loved the way that Ni No Kuni combines the collection of Pokemon from Pokemon and the semi-realtime combat system from a few JPRGs. It led to really fun and unique gameplay.

Este Jrpg con la colaboración del estudio Ghibli supuso en su momento la vuelta a los Jrpgs clásicos de mapamundi. Posee una bonita banda sonora y una historia propia del estudio Ghibli

I've just beaten the game so here goes my impressions: my first 6 hours were really great because everything was new. Graphics are really great, it's like an anime. It reminds me a bit Dragon Quest VIII. Soundtrack is really good as well, although the music in the battles can be repetitive as it can be these battles. About gameplay, is a mix of both turn based and real time based and reminds the Pokemon games. About plot is interesting at first. I think this game would have been better if it was shorter and with a more entertaining battle system. I think this is a really good game for children and young people but even if you're an adult and you are not only focused in bloody games with insults you're gonna enjoy this game. About difficulty, I didn't have much problems in easy mode until the end. Just make sure to save this game from time to time an especially when you are close to the "star" in the map (which is the main mission) because sometimes you can find a boss without having saved your game and save when you are a little far from the star cause sometimes you don't even reach the star and a scene triggers and sometimes is a boss. About bosses, if you have problems don't bother in leveling up your team. You only need to change your strategy, use the right attacks and have some potions in your bag. Doing this will be enough until you are finishing the game were enemies will be hard. My advice: do all the Horace riddles when you are close to the end. He will give you very good spells such Veil (with this you can avoid battles) and other strong spells. That's all. So yes, this is a good game. There should be more anime games like this in ps3 and ps4. It took me 39 hours to beat the game and a total of 44 hours and half to reach the real final. I beat the real final bosses at level 50 but with many PM potions (more than 20 and I used them all but 1). The worst of the final enemies is that your strongest spells are very slow to shoot and you can't cancel them to protect yourself when they send you a strong spell. This is the main gap I think.

A Masterpiece, loved everything about this game, it is definitely a must play!

Нормально. История очень тащит. Эта тема с помощью вернуться в нормальное состояние людям замечательная. Очень хорошо, что сделали историю личной - спасение мамы, пытаться продолжать жить, восстановление целостности людей.. Потому что без историй которые будут цеплять за живое, я например не смогу долго играть в такое. Так как бои наинуднейшие. Очень часто жал "сбежать", хоть и нашел эту функцию во второй половине игры :-) Благо гринда не много. Всего пару раз по десятку боев пришлось повоевать, что б на несколько уровней подняться. В ледяной пещере и на финальном боссе. Закончил на 51 лвл. С большими перерывами, не спеша, нормально играется. Но в целом играть или нет, я хз. Если важны душевные истории, то да стоит. Если происходящее не цепляет, то наверно и можно пропустить. .

I Love Ni No Kuni!I Love The Challenges And Art Style,Ooh!And Even The Amount Of Strategies You Can Use,I Know This Is My Opinion But, Ni No Kuni Is Great! 10 out of 10!

Hermoso juego!! me engancho de principio a fin! una de las razones que la ame tanto fueron las escenas de cinemática hechas por uno de mis estudios favoritos de la vida :D , no me aburrió en ningún momento y tiene una historia hermosa

Ni No Kuni is a fun and charming game filled with endearing characters and an enchanting world. Although the story may not be incredibly deep or complex, it’s well-executed and keeps things interesting. However, the battle system can be frustrating as you are constantly questioning your AI party members' intelligence and decision-making skills. The "familiars" bring a unique angle to the battles though and I find myself looking forward to exploring new areas specifically to find new creatures to add to my team. The animations created by Studio Ghibli also make the game a wonder to look at. Overall, a great game that is definitely worth jumping into.

An amazing light hearted game with a great storyline and lovable characters. The battle system was OK, got a bit repetitive after a while mind (and not for the best). Loved the side quest system and bounty hunts, all in all it was a very solid game. Could have had some more traditional Studio Ghibli cut scenes however... and all in all, the thing that REALLY, REALLY let it down was it's abysmal ending. Extremely anti-climatic and very disappointing. After putting 100+ hours into this game, I was hoping for a heartfelt, wonderful ending to this fantastic story but it seemed to end without finishing fully. I would have gladly given this game a solid 9/10 but the ending really was pathetic.

I have started the game expecting 9/10 but it is actually 6/10 game AT BEST. **** and shallow battle system, **** of boring copypasted side quests, time wasting slow animations, story for kids 5+ and no character development. I am incredibly disappointed in this turd.

[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]

Um dos melhores jogos, história perfeita e emocionante, sistema de combate empolgante, colecionar e evoluir familiares que te ajudam nos combates é maravilhoso, música e gráficos fantásticos.

Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch Playstation pokemon Ni No Kuni Wrath of The white witch is a pokemon like action jrpg where you play as a boy named oliver who sets out to save his mom. This is a really heart breaking and heart fixing story and adventure.. The game opens in a 1950s and 60s feeling town known as motoville.. there are tons of cutscenes and voice acting here.. though sadly this gets rarer the deeper you get into this game.. its mostly reading which holds this game back a bit, but youre just s typical school boy getting into all kinds of shenanigans with your best friends.. and then things happen.. you cry, and your tears free a fairy that’s been trapped in your world and takes you to his world to help you save your mom.. Cause this game is all about soulmates.. there are 2 versions of everyone.. Characters that live in motorville live in this other world as other characters and youll be going back and forth occasionally to take care of their issues to help them in the other world and get one step closer to saving your mom To do this youll be mending the broken hearts of this worlds characters.. youll have to borrow love and enthusiasm, and belief from characters that have plenty and give it to people with broken hearts using your spell book.. Did I forget to mention youre a wizard, cause youre a wizard.. youre the hero this world has been waiting on to save them.. as you progress the game youll learn new spells to cast in world as well as in combat.. The meat of this game.. This is a very pokemon heavy styled game.. At least for the majority.. you have to get a few hours in until a character joins you that allows you to capture familiars throughout the world.. To capture them you have to impress them by weakening them in battle, and esther can then serenade them to make them your own.. you then throw them in your party or store them.. Your party will eventuially have 3 main characters, and each can hold 3 familairs at a time, all equally gaining xp from battles.. once leveled up high enough you can evolve them into their next form which starts them back to level 1, but their stats will greatly improve throughout their 3 different forms.. Characters do have weaknesses, and will learn new elemental moves, and they all have different sub classes like fighter, tank, caster, healer… all of which are important to have in your party.. at least for the members you don’t use that often.. I was very olivery heavy and I stuck with my beginning familiar throughout.. But I made sure to give the rest of my party tanks so they wouldn’t die as quickly as well as healers to make sure the team stayed healthy, and fighters to do a bit of damage And both of my party members did a great job of doing damage using magic and healing Though youre able to freely switch through all 12 characters at any time during a battle as its all happening real time with a mix of turn based timers going on.. attacking and defending has to cool down and your special attacks are tied to magic points The combat here can really get intense.. i was active in most battles, even simple encounters with regular enemies… I feel like this is mostly thanks to how much magic points moves take.. I hardly ever did any special moves because of how costly they were,, I would save my magic to heal my part to make sure I wasn’t sent back to the start of an area at a save point, which will refull your health and magic.. I do feel that these moves are just a little too expensive though.. It feels like a waste to have them there and again.. never really get to use them Though this isn’t the case during boss battles.. Easily the highlight moments of this game.. where all of your grinding and leveling and party building with different weapons and armours pay off… Youll be timing attacks and defenses to get the poss to drop health and magic so you can pull off awesome moves and towards the end of the game youll even get to call in the bosses you’ve defeated as champions to pull off element based moves for massive damage… And occasionally bosses will drop a gold orb for you to do a super move and fill up your health.. Every boss battle felt just the right amount of challenging, excluding a certain moment in the game where you get to choose the order you take down these 3 different bosses.. for obvious reasons after you defeat one of the 3, the other 2 are a breaze.. but the rest of this games bosses are insane and are such a great pay off for crawling through the maze like dungeons.. Ni NO Kuni is a really special game.. its addictive with a heart warming story.. the grinding never feels like a grind.. the 30 hours fly by and its just the right amount of challenging the whole way through It would be great to see it come to ps4, but its worth dusting off the ps3 for I give Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch an 8.5/10

Excellent story, music, art. Only setback the unending battles with a tiresome real-time battle system. Abandoned it at 60%, not bearing more and more required battles... Worth trying it anyway.

To begin with the game had an appealing cartoony feel to it with warm characters and a good story. It however gets quite slow and uninteresting after awhile - not to mention the combat mechanics which gave me a headache.

After more than a hundred hours to get my platinum trophy, I must say this is a «Masterpiece». It is like playing in a Studio Ghibli movie with a fun fighting system. It is like Pokemon and Tales of had a baby. The story is well written and all the characters are fun to discover. The soundtracks are feeling just like a Studio Ghibli movie. Seriously, this game has nothing missing for a Single player JRPG. A must for JRPG and Studio Ghibli fans.

This is another on the list of masterpiece RPGs you must play in your lifetime. The plot from beginning to end will keep your pressing through each save unto the early hours of the morning. Not many RPGs in recent years have struck me the way Ni No Kuni has. My first qualification for such a positive rating is the holy trinity: challenging, rewarding, and emotionally impacting. In RPGs which tell a linear story it MUST be compelling. Trust me when I say, this game will pull at you emotionally. The combat system is unique and impressively intense at times. The final showdown in the game will have you enjoying every aspect of the combat you experience throughout. A perfect climax in terms of the system they used. All other bells and whistles of the game were otherwise perfect. If it didn't have so digital downloads, copies of this game would be worth 80-100 dollars in appreciation, years from now. Go play this game!

Con la llegada confirmada de la secuela se deben tomar las molestias para jugar o rejugar este juego japonés, vaya que belleza de juego con los estudios ghibli en la parte visual y un trasfondo del mas puro y clásico rpg, esta es la historia de un niño, magia, 2 mundos y una madre perdida (o muerta). de ahí solo se abre un libro que te enviara a los mas grandes y peculiares sueños. un juego perfecto

This game is as close to perfect as any game I have played. Full of charm and humour, with graphics which put most current gen titles to shame and with surprisingly deep gameplay too. An absolute masterpiece.

This is in my TOP 5 best JRPG ever made! Best RPG on PS3.. It brought back my love for RPGs, since everything has been god awful - Skyrim, and all these other games that people are playing. This is how I broke down my rating: Story - 10 Graphics 10 Gameplay 10 Sound - 10 Overall - 10 *Absolute masterpiece! Ni No Kuni 2 is coming out next year and looking forward to it! This is absolutely amazing and is a must play for PS3 owners!

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Ni no Kuni is an amazing game. I am not into JRPG at all, in fact the only JRPG I played is dark souls which is not a traditional slow-paced, turn-based and lengthy JRPG. At the beginning I find the game is kinda of boring, i.e, every encounter is just to spam attack button.. but maybe 10 hours into the game, I realized that the fighting system is rather complicated and elegant. You have minions with one of star, moon, and sun elements, they have pros and cons against each other, e.g, sun element deals more damage to moon, but less damage to star, etc. I maxed level dozens of minions, they are all fun to use and feels different. The story is quite enjoyable and cheering. Everyone has a heart even the bad guys. In the end, I just love every parts of the game. I cannot wait for ni no kuni 2.

My Review of Ni No Kuni Remake PS3 Gameplay: 2/10 Fun: 0/10 Difficulty: BS XP: Takes Forever Forever Forced Level: 100 Beat Games on Easy Difficulty Setting Difficulty Setting: Are not Truthful Easy is Hard, Normal is Very Hard Review: 2/10 Grade: F Worst JRPG Ever of all Time

A truly fantastic journey and narrative with a new take on JRPG elements. Ni No Kuni takes the key fun and impactful elements of games like Pokemon, Fire Emblem, Dragon Quest etc and pours them into a game that is simply stunning. Buy this if you can and experience what more JRPGs should be like in this day and age. I'll be picking this up the moment it comes to PS4 if it ever does

Ni no Kuni. Ein Spiel welches es vermag einen vollkommen in seine Welt eintauchen zu lassen. Zum ersten liegt das an der liebevoll, bis zum Rand mit Details, gefüllten und im passenden Anime-Look gehaltenen Spielewelt. Zum zweiten an dem süchtig machenden Zähmen und Entwickeln von Monstern/Vertrauten. Und zum Dritten an dem interessanten Kampfsystem, welches mich persönlich, an eine Mischung aus "Tales of" und der "FF13" Reihe erinnert. Alle die etwas mit der Optik und dem Kampfsystem der "Tales of" Reihe, dem Sammelwahn von "Pokemon" und vergleichbaren, dem Kampfsystem der "FF13" Trilogie, einem epischen orchestralem Soundtrack und allgemein etwas mit Anime bzw. Cell Shading anfangen können, sei dieses Spiel ans Herz gelegt. 9*

A superb game that;s reminded me why I loved games in the first place. Genuinely wonderful JRPG that I borrowed a PS3 to play - and I was not disappointed :)